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Lehtonen et al. (1998) considered polyesterification of maleic acid with propylene glycol in an experimental batch reactive distillation system. There were two side reactions in addition to the main esterification reaction. The equipment consists of a 4000 ml batch reactor with a one theoretical plate distillation column and a condenser. The reactions took place in the liquid phase of the reactor. By removing the water by distillation, the reaction equilibrium was shifted to the production of more esters. The reaction temperatures were 150-190° C and the catalyst concentrations were varied between 0.01 and 0.1 mol%. The kinetic and mass transfer parameters were estimated via the experiments. These were then used to develop a full-scale dynamic process model for the system. 

Previously reported work describes dynamic process model for ice cream freezers (Bongers, 2006) and extruders (Bongers and Campbell, 2008) to relate operating conditions, equipment geometry with physical attributes, such as extrusion temperature. 

Robertson GA, Cameron IT. "Analysis of Dynamic Process Models for Structural Insight and Model Reduction-Part 1. Structural Identification Measures . Computers Chemical Engineering 1997 21(5) 455-473. 

A dynamic process model for this process can, according to Zhang and Morris, be developed in two different ways ... 

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